Luís O. Silva

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I am a Professor of Physics (Professor Catedrático) at Department of Physics of Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal. My research is performed at the Laser and Plasmas Group, where I lead the epp team. I am also the scientific coordinator of the Laser and Plasmas Group.

I am interested in the interaction of intense fields with plasmas (High Energy Density Science | High Field Science | Ultra Fast Science | Extreme Plasma Physics) with applications in plasma-based accelerators, intense radiation sources, attosecond pulse generation, magnetic field generation in gamma ray bursters, and supernovae explosions.

Media coverage of my work can be found in :: epp on the news ::


address	GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear
	Complexo Interdisciplinar
	Instituto Superior Técnico
	1049-001 Lisboa
	PORTUGAL
phone	+351 21 8419336 (ext. 3336)
fax	+351 21 8464455
homepage	http://web.ist.utl.pt/luis.silva/
email	luis.silva at ist.utl.pt
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News

[May 2011]	Laser wakefield self-injection with external B-fields published in Phys Rev Lett
[Apr 2011]	Jorge Vieira and Frederico Fiúza awarded UTL Prize for Young Scientists
[Dec 2010]	News and Views on Raman Amplification paper (+ mention on the cover) in Nature Physics
[Dec 2010]	News and Views on laser wakefield acceleration with tilted wavefronts to appear in Nature Photonics
[Dec 2010]	Recent work on Raman amplification and boosted frame simulations featured in the CERN Courier
[Dec 2010]	Laser wakefield acceleration with tilted wavefronts published in Phys Rev Lett
[Oct 2010]	Luís O. Silva awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for ACCELERATES
[Oct 2010]	Bright spatially coherent synchrotron X-rays from a table-top source to appear in Nature Physics
[Oct 2010]	Simulations of Raman Amplification into the PW regime to appear in Nature Physics
[Aug 2010]	Two papers accepted for publication in Nature Physics [under press embargo]
[Jul 2010]	Luís O. Silva selected as member of the Scientific Steering Committee of PRACE
[Jun 2010]	1.4 GeV self-injected ionization trapped electrons in LWFA to appear in Phys Rev Lett
[May 2010]	Luís O. Silva invited as member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of ELI Beamlines
[Apr 2010]	Boosted frame simulations & energy frontier published in Nature Physics
[Mar 2010]	Samuel Martins awarded IBM Prize
[Jan 2010]	Joana Martins awarded Gulbenkian Prize for Young Researchers
[Nov 2009]	Luis O. Silva elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

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